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Newark lays off more than 100 school employees

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Newark Superintendent Cami Anderson talks with a class at Eastside High School in Newark in February 2012. Her district gave layoff notices to more than 100 employees today.
(Photo by Jennifer Brown/The Star-Ledger)

NEWARK — More than 100 employees of the Newark Public Schools have received layoff notices.

Schools spokeswoman Renee Harper said 129 positions in the state’s largest school district will be eliminated, including department chairs and supervisors, effective July 1.

According to Harper, the schools had too many supervisors and principals will absorb the duties of those laid off.

A number of those laid off may be hired back, she said

The employees are members of the City Association of Supervisors and Administrators Union. A union official said tonight the move will compromise learning and disrupt the implementation of required national standards.